India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s6.t1.32

c9.s6.t1.32

*TRIṀŚATKA*—Besides *viṁśatika*, Pāṇini also mentions another specific coin named *triṁśatka* (V. 1. 24), a name which is found only in the *Ashṭādhyāyī* and not elsewhere. The *triṁśatka* apparently stands for a coin of 30 *māshas*, or 60 *rattis*. B. Durga Prasad obtained from Bihar specimens of silver punch-marked coins, weighing 104 grains and 105·7 grains or about 58 *rattis*, which should be identified as *triṁśatka* (cf. *J.U.P.H.S.*, July, 1939, p. 33.).